Native Londoner, music writer, photographer, one quarter of @thisisdogunit. Enjoys: live music, Dennis Bergkamp, disco(s), the movies, art, cats, puns.
Woolwich, London, UK
Joined May 2008
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On BBC Two just now, @BBCSport have just shown pictures of Bukayo Saka and Jurrien Timber watching the Arsenal Women, but captioned it as Myles Lewis-Skelly. Does someone in the graphics dept need to update their sticker collection?
Sam Walton retweeted
Welcome to Jurassic Park: a repository for lost songs, played and released with a gleeful abandon that can't exist within Radiohead. An extensive review of the new @thesmiletheband album, by @SmWltn loudandquiet.com/reviews/the… #thesmile #Radiohead #thomyorke #johnnygreenwood
I also made a video for one of the Dog Unit album tracks to celebrate the release...:
But that's not all! To celebrate At Home release day, check out the Guitar Hero parodying vid for album highlight 'We Can Still Win This' 🎸 youtube.com/watch?v=M-GpPw67…
V proud of this today
At Home is available everywhere now!
We hope you enjoy the record!
lnk.to/DogUnit-AtHome
Lucy, Henry, Sam and Jim
Really happy to see this come to fruition today. Big up the team at @BraceYourself Records for supporting the idea from the off and making it happen...
What are we after when we buy a record? A physical format to listen to, or a souvenir from our favourite artist? UK band Dog Unit are raising the question with their new sustainable "Greensleeves" format.
lnk.to/DogUnit-AtHome
#DogUnit #vinyllover #NOMUSICONADEADPLANET
Proud of this thread today
It's a big @ThisIsDogUnit news day! Excited to reveal debut album, At Home, lands Apr 5th on BY Records. Go and cop it on LP, CD and digitally 🏡lnk.to/DogUnit-AtHome
Was a genuine thrill to interview Jeff Tweedy and Cate Le Bon about the new Wilco album, and about music-making in general - so much refreshing thought. Having just finished making a record myself, this passage from Jeff really resonnated with me, in particular:
Cousin, the new album from @wilco, is one of their most adventurous records since their critical and commercial breakthrough, and the input of @catelebon is a key reason why it’s so special. @SmWltn spoke to them about how it all came about
loudandquiet.com/interview/w…
Sure, everyone will be at Glastonbury by tomorrow night, but in case you're not, and still fancy some live music, can I heartily suggest @thisisdogunit's gig in Dalston instead? Get £3 off by using the code WOOF here: dice.fm/event/88ky5-dog-unit… #terribleselfpublicity
I went to Primavera for @LoudAndQuietMag this weekend just gone, and photographed loads of really great shows. Here's a two-tweet selection of some of my favourite moments, first from the headliners (Blur, Depeche Mode, Kendrick Lamar, Pet Shop Boys)...
ALT Blur's Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon on stage at Primavera Sound Barcelona
ALT Depeche Mode's Martin Gore on stage at Primavera Sound Barcelona
ALT Kendrick Lamar on stage at Primavera Sound Barcelona
ALT The Pet Shop Boys on stage at Primavera Sound Barcelona
...and then from bands slightly lower down the poster, but every bit as exciting to watch (Maggie Rogers, Soul Glo, the Moldy Peaches and Sparks).
ALT Maggie Rogers on stage at Primavera Sound Barcelona
ALT The Moldy Peaches' Kimya Dawson on stage at Primavera Sound Barcelona
ALT Soul Glo's Pierce Jordan and GG Guerra on stage at Primavera Sound Barcelona
ALT Sparks's Russell Mael (foreground) and Ron Mael (background) on stage at Primavera Sound Barcelona
The chat I had with James Holden about his new album, 90s provincial raves, and why kick drums are stupid, is now up the @LoudAndQuietMag site. Go read!
“Music is an activity, not a product – it’s a social thing” From issue 158, our interview with @mrjamesholden is now on the site loudandquiet.com/interview/j…
Another observation about Bacharach's songwriting, after a quick Spotify rummage: the fact there are *so* many different arrangements of his hits that just shows how resilient his songs were.
Burt Bacharach obviously wrote a mind-blowing number of beautiful songs, but among them was Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head, aka my favourite song of all time. What an extraordinary contribution to music he made.
I spent yesterday afternoon trying to work out why news of Mimi Parker's death hit me particularly hard. Here's what I came up with.
Here at L&Q we were all extremely saddened to hear of Mimi Parker's passing. She was an amazing person. @SmWltn has written a beautiful reflection on why she and her work meant so much to so many people
loudandquiet.com/short/remem…
The cover story for this month's Loud And Quiet, about my day trip to Southend with @DryCleaningBand, just went online. They're a great band, it was a revealing chat. Go read/buy/subscribe etc (if you want)
"It’s not like ‘Oh now I’m going to be in a band and do this weird thing’. I’ve always enjoyed listening to people talk – that’s just nice.”
For the cover of Issue 155 of L&Q, @SmWltn went to Southend with @drycleaningband to talk Stumpwork: buff.ly/3MXGpxF
